Max Boyla (b. 1991, Edinburgh) is a Scottish artist based in London who graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2023. Holding to a tradition that sees painting as an illusion, Boyla’s work can exist in a perpetual limbo: a place where the limited and real world mingles with the eternal and fictional. His satin surfaces, a synthetic material derived as a petroleum byproduct, create tension, offering a lustre towards abstract cosmologies. Shorn of all sense of time and place, fantasies of the infinite collide with a questioning of a contemporary state of disillusionment.

Highlights of recent exhibitions include “An Uncommon Thread”, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset (2025, group), "Shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow", Sim Smith (2025, group), “New Contemporaries”, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK (2025, group), “New Contemporaries”, Karst, Plymouth, UK (2024, group), ‘Crying like a fire in the sun”, Workplace, London (2024, solo); ‘Slow Motion’, Des Bains, London (2023, duo); ‘Slivers in the Void’, Mamoth, London (2023, group); ‘Add More Fuel To Your Life’, Sim Smith, London (2023, solo); ‘Inside Out’, The Artist Room, London (2022, group).